Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
For the record, despite my lack of postings here, I have been practicing a new piece, "Ballydesmond, No. 3" in order to keep to my quota of a new piece every two weeks. I've just not managed to find the time to write it up yet.
I tried to record it - along with a later, more practiced, version of "Shoe The Donkey" but I've been having a series of problems with the drivers for the M-Audio Firewire 410 interface I use. Without going into too much detail, it first managed to corrupt the operating system's MIDI subsystem: so CoreAudio would crash when anything tried to initialise the MIDI drivers. Installation of the latest driver, v1.5.3 corrected this but I've been completely unable to get a pop/click/drop-out free recording since. A quick google revealed that pretty much anyone trying to use the Firewire 410 under OS X has had similar problems.
I'll be switching back to my Edirol FA-101 for future recordings, I think.
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